Hearing protection. OSHA won't deal with the feds, unfortunately. This woman has a long history of crazy going back decades and it turns out she has driven off dozens of employees. Everyone else in the building is shocked I've lasted as long as I have. Talked with her boss and let him know what was going on.

7/26/2013 10:10:16 AM

OSHA will still deal with government work, but I don't think the previous poster was implying actually getting OSHA involved, rather clearly pointing out to your boss using OSHA requirements (if the company requirements -which may exceed OSHA- aren't clearly stated in a company safety plan) if there is an actual issue where you are supposed to be wearing it but they will not let you.

Where are they not allowing you to wear hearing protection and why do you need it? On any site, there are areas I wear mine and areas we are not supposed to wear it. Just like gloves. There are tasks where gloves are required as well as actual tasks where gloves are not allowed.

If it is an area where hearing protection is required and they are not letting you wear it, then definitely point that out via the safety plan or OSHA. If it is an area where it is not specifically required by OSHA or the site safety plan, then you can start getting into a grey area on whether or not they can ask you not to wear it.

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7/26/2013 10:19:06 AM

I've already pointed this all out to her. Required when using a certain piece of equipment, but you can't reason with crazy.

7/26/2013 10:25:30 AM

Quote :

" 1910.5(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, the standards contained in this part shall apply with respect to employments performed in a workplace in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Wake Island, Outer Continental Shelf lands defined in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Johnston Island, and the Canal Zone. 1910.5(b) None of the standards in this part shall apply to working conditions of employees with respect to which Federal agencies other than the Department of Labor, or State agencies acting under section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2021), exercise statutory authority to prescribe or enforce standards or regulations affecting occupational safety or health."

7/26/2013 10:25:59 AM

Interesting.

7/26/2013 5:40:47 PM

I sometimes wish construction contractors weren't the biggest assfucks ever to walk this planet.

8/7/2013 10:28:51 AM

I wish that know-it-all users didn't interfere with my construction projects

8/7/2013 10:30:50 AM

Its dead silent all morning with my office door closed, then it gets a little toasty in here, open the door and its immediately a god damn ruckus out there.

Back to closed and hot.

8/7/2013 12:54:49 PM

Fake ass bitches who kiss all of my bosses' ass.

Oh, and I especially hate it when they won't give me but 7.5 hrs a WEEK. I mean, who does that!?!? That's basically what I used to work a DAY. GTFOH


Moving onnnn (in my Mya voice).

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8/7/2013 7:49:55 PM

air conditioning is fucked up. hotter in here than it is outside.

8/8/2013 11:15:33 AM

That sucks. I have the heat on at work and I am freezing

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8/8/2013 11:15:54 AM

The guy in the office next to my company's owns the building we work in (along with a lot of other stuff in town). To top it off, he didn't work to get all of his properties...he inherited them when his father died. As far as I can tell the guy is a self-indulgent douchebag...he came over with a lab puppy he recently bought and proceeded to tell us how it was from a championship blood-line and how he spent $1000 on it.

He brings the damn dog with him to work everyday and leaves for an hour or 2 at a time...he usually leaves the dog shut up in his office and the thing barks non-stop for an hour straight...makes it really fucking hard to concentrate on anything. We've asked that he do something about it, but whatever he's doing (or not doing ) doesn't seem to be working. Just leave your fucking dog at home when you're at work like everyone else in America.

8/9/2013 2:45:52 PM

I hate it when one of the teachers in the room next door heats up left over fish for lunch and that smell carries from room to room. It makes me want to puke.

8/9/2013 2:56:35 PM

Regarding the hearing protection, has she given you a reason why you can't wear hearing protection?

Call a lawyer, Document everything, and make her fire you. I'm not sue happy, but fuck that.

That being said, some applications wearing ppe makes it more dangerous. Like wearing a type of gloves that encumbers your ability to do your job safely

8/9/2013 4:24:07 PM

coworker keeps clearing his throat, LOUDLY. Just get up and get some water.

8/11/2013 11:43:02 PM

people who call for every little question instead of emailing

8/12/2013 10:58:42 AM

My boss is one of those people

And by one of those people I mean even worse because he makes me make the calls and play middle man. So I get to be the one who feels like an idiot when they ask why I had to call and didnt just email for something so simple. Granted I usually start off every conversation with "My boss wanted me to give you a call and... "

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8/12/2013 11:14:30 AM

reply all.

8/12/2013 11:22:01 AM

don't use the phrase "choke a bitch" at work

or ever

especially when referring to your "hot dentist"

8/20/2013 10:33:08 AM

Server crashed. Again. So I'm the only one in the office doing work bc I'm the only one who can

8/20/2013 10:48:22 AM

Skits.

8/20/2013 11:33:08 AM

if someone has a quick question that i should be able to answer off the top of my head, i'd much rather them just call me.

8/20/2013 12:48:01 PM

it takes my computer 20 minutes a day to get started and all of my programs open.

8/20/2013 4:21:41 PM

Just lost a client over a communication error on both our parts and it's pissing me off more than it should

8/20/2013 8:47:15 PM

My first day back from vacation, and I'm asked to take on a small portion of a project that someone else is behind on. The next day I'm treated as if I've been the lead on the project the whole time, and that it's due very soon.

8/20/2013 8:53:25 PM

people who hover over you while you complete a task. you standing over me is not going to make this go any faster.

8/21/2013 9:24:09 AM

You're over 300lbs. Do you really need an x-ray to tell you why your knees hurt?

8/21/2013 10:48:46 AM

But that's asking them to have both common sense and personal accountability.

8/21/2013 10:49:58 AM

When coworkers steal your sales and get YOUR commissions from it after you've worked your butt off! Ughhhhhh!!

8/21/2013 1:45:01 PM

why would you let that happen?

8/21/2013 2:08:21 PM

^^i was up there yesterday in alterations. CHAOS!!!!!

8/21/2013 2:12:35 PM

How the fuck does someone steal your sale?

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8/21/2013 2:17:31 PM

probably she started helping someone look for what they wanted and while she was looking in another part of the store, some other sales person came up and whisked the shopper away to their corner of the store

or whatever


i'm just guessing since i saw it happen when i was there

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8/21/2013 2:25:02 PM

I have an engineering degree but I spend large portions of my time fixing the grammar and writing of my colleagues. Please to learn basic technical writing .

8/21/2013 2:26:03 PM

oh that kind of sales

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8/21/2013 2:31:51 PM

getting smacked in the face is pretty annoying

8/21/2013 4:47:27 PM

^^^^ Maybe....and I'm sure that happens.....but they still can't take the sale. Or at least, they aren't supposed to if someone else is helping them. We are given 2-3 clients (clients meaning individual or groups/parties) at a time....so consultants or dress specialists who don't have clients should get new ones who just walked in or either ask people around the store if someone is already helping them.


And as far as what I meant, it was my client and I had already wrapped up the deal and put all comments/notes on her account/wish list....but another consultant rang her up for the exact dress I commented on and had fitted her in. THAT IS MY SALE. She put it under her name. HUGE No-No!!



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8/21/2013 5:32:05 PM

Quote :

"I have an engineering degree but I spend large portions of my time fixing the grammar and writing of my colleagues. Please to learn basic technical writing . "

My cousin is constantly sending me emails his colleagues send out because they're so badly written no one has the slightest idea what they were trying to convey.

8/21/2013 5:38:40 PM

Those were the people who spouted off the "Fuck this mandatory English class shit. I'm going to be a scientist. I don't need to be able to write" crap in college.

8/21/2013 5:41:49 PM

Some of these scientists at my workplace can't even do simple math.

8/21/2013 6:26:44 PM

They're too evolved for that menial shit.

8/21/2013 6:28:26 PM

Well the problem is they don't even have to use their brains. Calculations can be found online you just have to plug in numbers. I still do it the traditional way so I don't forget that shit.

I has a summer student who was a first year medical student, which means she just got out of college last year wasn't able to convert a simple unit. I told her, try to figure it out if you can't come up with a number I'll help you. Didn't even try, just said, I don't remember.

8/21/2013 6:32:29 PM

wow

And here I am with a shit job.

8/21/2013 6:45:58 PM

Quote :

"When coworkers steal your sales and get YOUR commissions from it after you've worked your butt off! Ughhhhhh!! "

In a previous life I sold cars for a short while. After the customer and I agreed on numbers, there was a lot of work to be done (get the new car cleaned up, gas put in it, if there is a trade-in then we have to transfer all their junk from their old car to the new, and transfer the license plate as well, etc.). Now on the weekends when lots of people are buying cars, it wasn't a big deal because there was usually a wait for your customer to get into the finance office and sign all the paperwork. But during the week, there wasn't a wait and they would get in and out really fast and be waiting on you to finish doing all that stuff with the new car.

Well when it was slow, and the customer was going to be waiting on us, sometimes another salesman will offer to help you out by transferring the license plate while you're doing the junk inside, etc. And then they will try to claim half of the sale because of it.

One time my battery on my drill died so I asked to borrow my co-workers instead of just using my screw driver. He tried to claim half the sale on that. And it basically came down to whether or not the sales managers liked you more than the guy trying to claim half the sale on if it was split or not

8/21/2013 10:25:43 PM

got a brand new... not top of the line, but still modern laptop at work... turn it on, and IT has taken OFF windows 7 and REPLACED it with Windows XP

8/22/2013 8:49:54 AM

Wow, some of these jobs I'd walk right out.

Thank god I work out of my house. Work for myself. Thank god.

8/22/2013 8:58:22 AM

When my well pump turns on it is loud and I have to turn the TV up.

8/22/2013 10:44:03 AM

^how's that work?

is the breaker buzzing, or do you have a TV set up in your pump house?

8/22/2013 10:49:52 AM

I work in my basement, the pump is on the wall that the ground leans in to, it is older than me and ear ringing loud. I need to build a wall around it so I can talk on the phone in here.

8/22/2013 12:22:05 PM

Str8BacardiL hard at work

8/22/2013 12:30:57 PM